The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Band 3John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... authority over them ; or who , having a just title to the government of a people , abuses it to the destruction or tormenting of them . So that all tyrants are at the same time usurpers , either of the whole , or at least of a part , of ...
... authority over them ; or who , having a just title to the government of a people , abuses it to the destruction or tormenting of them . So that all tyrants are at the same time usurpers , either of the whole , or at least of a part , of ...
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... authority , by their forefathers , what shall we say of that man , who , having by right no power at all in this nation , could not content himself with that which had satisfied the most ambitious of our princes ? nay , not with those ...
... authority , by their forefathers , what shall we say of that man , who , having by right no power at all in this nation , could not content himself with that which had satisfied the most ambitious of our princes ? nay , not with those ...
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... authority , by that sovereign from whom he ought to derive it , without disputing or examining the causes , either of the removal of the one , or the preferment of the other . Secondly , be- cause all power is attained , either by the ...
... authority , by that sovereign from whom he ought to derive it , without disputing or examining the causes , either of the removal of the one , or the preferment of the other . Secondly , be- cause all power is attained , either by the ...
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... I read nothing but commands , and even public proclamations , from God Almighty , not to admit him . " Your second argument is , that he had the same right for his authority , that is the foundation of OF OLIVER CROMWELL . 69.
... I read nothing but commands , and even public proclamations , from God Almighty , not to admit him . " Your second argument is , that he had the same right for his authority , that is the foundation of OF OLIVER CROMWELL . 69.
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In Prose and Verse Abraham Cowley Richard Hurd. right for his authority , that is the foundation of all others , even the right of conquest . Are we then so unhappy as to be conquered by the person whom we hired at a daily rate , like a ...
In Prose and Verse Abraham Cowley Richard Hurd. right for his authority , that is the foundation of all others , even the right of conquest . Are we then so unhappy as to be conquered by the person whom we hired at a daily rate , like a ...
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Seite 209 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Seite 182 - If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like Moses, should espy Ev'n in a bush the radiant Deity. But we despise these his inferior ways (Though no less full of miracle and praise) : Upon the flowers of heaven we gaze ; The stars of earth no wonder in us raise, Though these perhaps do, more than they, The life of mankind sway.
Seite 230 - Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, that happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day.
Seite 234 - ... separate me from a mistress which I have loved so long, and have now at last married, though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her. - Nee vos, dulcissima mundi Nomina, vos Musae, libertas, otia, libri, Hortique sylvesque anima remanente relinquam.
Seite 233 - Well, then, I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, &c. And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's happy restoration, but the getting into some moderately convenient retreat in the country...
Seite 174 - Nobilis otii,' when he spoke of his own). But several accidents of my ill fortune have disappointed me hitherto, and do still, of that felicity ; for though I have made the first and hardest step to it, by abandoning all ambitions and hopes in this world, and by retiring from the noise of all business and almost company, yet I stick still in the inn of a hired house and garden, among weeds and rubbish ; and without that pleasantest work of human industry, the improvement of something which we call...
Seite 173 - I never had any other desire so strong and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them and study of nature ; "And there, (with no design beyond my wall) whole and entire to lie, In no unactive ease and no unglorious poverty ; or, as Virgil has said, shorter and better for me.
Seite 135 - HAIL, old patrician trees, so great and good ! Hail, ye plebeian underwood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for their quiet nests and plenteous food, Pay with their grateful voice.
Seite 136 - A silver stream shall roll his waters near, Gilt with the sunbeams here and there, On whose enamelled bank I'll walk, And see how prettily they smile, and hear How prettily they talk.
Seite 166 - To a lord's house, as lordly as can be, Made for the use of pride and luxury, They come ; the gentle courtier at the door Stops, and will hardly enter in before. But 'tis, sir, your command, and being so, I'm sworn t' obedience ; and so in they go.